Mired in an eight-game winless skid and in search of answers, the Vancouver Canucks showed a number of new looks at practice on Wednesday morning at Rogers Arena.
We’re still not quite a month into the 2026-27 NHL season, and so it might seem a little too early to be talking about the Vancouver Canucks selling off players.
Some losses tell you a team is completely out of its depth; others leave you wondering how things went wrong again. The Vancouver Canucks‘ 6-3 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night falls into the second category.
Jake DeBrusk of the Vancouver Canucks was mentioned on Chris Johnston’s latest trade board, and in the summary of his situation, the NHL insider hinted that DeBrusk might be motivated to work with Vancouver on a trade this season.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
The losses are piling up for the Vancouver Canucks to begin the 2026-27 season, and it’s starting to get to the players in the locker room. With last night’s 6-3 loss to the defending Stanley Cup Champion Carolina Hurricanes, the Canucks find themselves in the midst of an eight-game losing streak.
DeBrusk – EP40 – Karlsson Cotter – Chytil – Boeser Öhgren – O’Connor – Lekkerimäki Bains – Sasson – Gallagher EP25 – Hronek Oleksiak – Willander Buium – Schenn The game began with the Canucks immediately having to defend, and struggling to break the puck out against the Hurricanes’ forecheck.
Tonight, the Vancouver Canucks play their 11th game of the season as they host the Carolina Hurricanes. Plenty of ink has been spilled already about the Canucks’ first 10 games of the season here at canucksarmy.com/Daily Faceoff Vancouver.
The Vancouver Canucks (2-7-1) open a three-game homestand when they host the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes (7-2-1) at Rogers Arena. Opening faceoff is scheduled for 7 pm PT.
After struggling to find consistent ice time to begin the 2026-27 season, the Vancouver Canucks placed Aatu Räty on NHL waivers. The day after Räty cleared waivers, the Canucks had found him a new home, sending him to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for forwards Jacob Quillan and Brandon Buhr.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The Vancouver Canucks could use a little good news right about now. After a six-game road trip that left them searching for answers, the team returned to Rogers Arena on Monday for its first home practice in almost two weeks.
Prior to this season, the Vancouver Canucks’ senior-most Elias Pettersson had been struggling for so long that it’ll take a lot more than ten good games to convince most people that he’s truly bounced back.
As the Vancouver Canucks return home from their two-week road trip, the team finds themselves with as many wins as when they hit the road: two. That’s right, they dropped all six contests during their trip out East.
For the first time in almost two weeks, the Vancouver Canucks skated at Rogers Arena on Monday morning. Following the team’s six-game road trip and a day off Sunday, the Canucks were back at practice ahead of a three-game homestand.
The Abbotsford Canucks got some home ice action this past weekend at Rogers Forum, kicking off a four-game homestand with back-to-backs against the Seattle Kraken affiliate Coachella Valley Firebirds. In the team’s home opener on Saturday night, the Canucks put on a show for the Abbotsford fans, finishing the game with a 7-3 win.
The Vancouver Canucks have eclipsed the ten-game mark in the 2026-27 season. Like all rebuilding teams, the Canucks are taking their lumps, having just completed a six-game road trip that left them winless.
Last week, I asked the question of whether Aatu Räty would ever play consecutive games again or remain in permanent centre purgatory. Well, the answer turned out to be ‘never’ within the Canucks organization, as Räty was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs last week.
Every prospect has nights when everything goes right. The puck finds the net, passes connect, and the box score looks wonderful. The harder question is what happens when the good nights stop coming.
The Vancouver Canucks may be mired in a seven-game losing streak, but their prospects, particularly the trio of Adam Novotny, Braeden Cootes and Anthony Romani, continue to provide hope for the future with their play this season so far.
It’s still early in the 2026-27 Vancouver Canucks season and early, too, in the organization’s stated rebuild. But 10 games give us all a limited sample size to start following emerging storylines.
Elias Pettersson’s name continues to pop up in trade speculation and has for the past couple of seasons. Off to a point-per-game start, this season will likely be no different.
As expected, the Vancouver Canucks announced they’ve activated center Filip Chytil from injured reserve. The oft-injured forward began the season on Vancouver’s injured reserve due to a shoulder injury.
Vancouver Canucks center Filip Chytil is slated to make his 2026-27 season debut Thursday after missing the first eight games while recovering from a shoulder injury.
The Vancouver Canucks are days away from activating forward Filip Chytil (muscular shoulder strain) from the injured reserve. To activate Chytil, the Canucks needed to create roster space and made a peculiar roster move to do so.
There’s a funny thing about being a young defenceman in Vancouver. Everybody wants you to be the next great Canucks defenceman, preferably yesterday. Zeev Buium is only 20, but the expectations are already pretty big.